Musings From New York

I was in DC over the weekend, meeting Andy, who'd come down for a World Bank Conference.

Most of the trip was uneventful. We spent Friday talking about BITS, and general catching up. We spent Saturday walking around the mall, visiting the National Air & Space Museum & the National Museum of the American Indian (as an aside, when did it suddenly become PC to call them "American Indians"? I thought the description was "Native Americans").


I met Mike on Saturday evening for some drinks. I found out that he wasn't a student (for some reason I thought he was), but a technical writer with a history of RJ-ing (so that explains the blog!).


I watched Robots on Saturday night (review to follow), as Andy had an official dinner to attend.

There was some excitement later Saturday night, as the fire alarm in our hotel went off at about 1:30 in the morning. We had the presence of mind to pull on some shoes, and sweaters/jackets before we evacuated the building. That was a good thing - it was probably close to freezing outside, and there were people out there in pyjamas. As a matter of fact, there was a Chinese TV crew there too - they must've been staying in the hotel too. There was a fire on the 4th floor, which apparently destroyed 3 or 4 rooms - we were on the 6th floor, so we could definitely feel the heat & smoke when we took the stairs down!

We finally got back into the room at about 3:30am ... which meant we woke up at about noon, lounged around (I saw the Watergate Hotel) before I took the 5:20pm train back to New York.